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K.P.F. Electric, Box 76, Dec 1948
K.P.F. Electric was a San Francisco company, founded in 1904, and August Julius Pahl was the managing president. There’s no longer much to find about the company, and I was always wondering what type of electrical engineering they were involved in. This box of negatives gives the answer I was looking for. K.P.F. Electric was…
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Dr. Scott’s children, Box 75, 1949
This box of negatives has 24 sheets in it, and only covers one photoshoot. The children of Dr. Scott, possibly 1949. As usual, I did some genealogy and City of Stockton Registry research, and came up with Dr. Wirt Stanley Scott Jr., Physician and Surgeon, practicing at 2633 Pacific Avenue. Dr. Scott was born Jan…
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A Christmas Pageant, Box 74, Dec 20 1948
The title on this box was self explanatory, the contents illustrative. Before we check out the “Christmas Pageant”, I’m showing two water polo images that were both published in the Naranjado 1949 College of Pacific Yearbook. The rest of the images all belong to the “Christmas Pageant” documentary photo shoot. Date is Dec 20, 1948,…
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A Stockton Christmas, Box 73, Dec 1948
December 28, 1948 was something special for the kids, and adults, of Stockton. Next few images show us the anticipation, and Joel is playing this little game building the tension up through images. The other aspect of these images is, find your grandparents in this bunch ! We don’t always appreciate that they were kids…
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All the King’s Men, Box 72, Dec 10, 1948
Negative Box 72 was found with multiple subjects, and upon closer examination, contained images shot during the filming of “All the King’s Men” at the COP Morris Chapel. Shooting of the movie was from Dec 1948 to Feb 1949. The date Joel left behind on the box was Dec 10, 1948. It’s no secret that…
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Dr. Nelson Hospital, Box 71, 1948
Dr. George Nelson was a veterinarian, with an animal hospital at 1234 N Wilson Way, Stockton, this according to the Stockton-Lodi City Directory of 1949. We can’t be sure how Joel got to do this commercial photoshoot. Maybe Dr. Nelson knew Joel’s late father, Thomas Lawrence Dardis, a veterinarian himself. The first three negatives however…
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Folk Dance, Box 70, Dec 1948
There were few scribbles on this box of 21 negatives. “Folk Dance”, with a date of Dec 5, 1948. and then there was mention of few “clubs” and Naranjado. Stepping back for a second, this is the 70th box of press negatives scanned, for a total of some 2100+ images, including a good number of…
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Segarini’s, Box 69, Oct 1948
Joel wrote following on the lid of this box of 16 press format negatives. Segarini Store, Gov. Warren, Navy Day and Oct 24, 1948. (Which was a Sunday.) Earl could have been stomping for Thomas E. Dewey as running mate for the 1948 election. The latter is merely conjecture, Stockton historians may be able to…
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Collins Wedding, Box 68, Sept 12, 1948
This negative box contains 23 negatives, all related to a wedding that according to Joel’s scribble, took place on Sept 12, 1948. There is no location mentioned. I check the usual resources and couldn’t locate any Collins wedding around that time frame in Stockton. Then it dawned on me that this could be any locations,…
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Majorettes and football, Box 67, 1948
There are two subjects in this box. What appears to be few images from majorette out of a parade we’ve seen before. This time there’s an name, I can make out Jo Ann Fonseca-Marquard (sic). There’s also a note “Lodi Parade”. The rest are images from a Loyola – Pacific football game at night in…
Finding Joel Pahl Dardis 